social issue: Capital Punishment

I completely agree and support the idea of capital punishment, better know as the death penalty. To quote a great book i once read " an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" . I could not have said it better. The death penalty, at least now a days, is more commonly used in cases of a person committing a particularly heinous crime. More times then not it is in the event of murder. So i guess my question is who would not support capital punishment? This type of punishment has been carried out as long as history takes us back. Of course the manner in which it is executed, no pun intended, has definitely gotten more humane and i suppose that's a good thing. However there are still large groups of people in our society who are strongly against any form of capital punishment stating that any murder of sorts is inhumane even if carried out as punishment. I suppose with the number of states outlawing the death penalty it shows they have made progress in their fight. We will see how they feel when someone murders a loved one and they are face with that feeling of anger against the one who destroyed their life and the life of the victim.